Monday: Unprepared But Unfazed

I admit I wasn’t ready for the beginning of this Seven Day Project. I had no recipes planned and no food purchased. I was going to have to rely on the kindness of what I had on hand.

Breakfast
Breakfast consisted of two Nature Valley Trail Mix Fruit and Nut Bars, purchased for $0.30 each from a co-worker. In addition to that I drank coffee that is provided for free by my employer.

Total cost = $0.60

Lunch
Lunch was another scrounge-and-eat affair. I usually keep a bag of white rice and some canned goods in my office for days on which I don’t want to go out and eat. I calculated the cost of a cup of dried white rice as $0.35, cooked up two cups, and then ate half of the cooked rice with a can of black beans which cost $0.70.

With my meal I drank water.

Total cost = $1.05

I made a stop at Kroger on my way home from the office.

Regardless, I went ahead and ate some of the food I had left over from the weekend, calculating the cost of the serving consumed based on the purchase price.

Dinner
I ate a cheese sandwich for dinner. The sandwich consisted of one-fourth of a loaf of bread I had purchased for $2 along with one-sixth of a wheel of brie I had purchased for $6.

With my meal I drank water.

Total cost = $1.50

Tale Of The Tape
The day’s total cost = $3.15
The week’s total cost = $3.15

Make sure to check out the others who are taking the challenge

• Tami at Running With Tweezers [or Twitter @tamih]
• Molly at Disposable Income [or Twitter @GrabMoL]
• Mike at Eat On $30 [or Twitter @boutte]
• Tessa at Drive A Faster Car [or Twitter @tessa]
• Dave at Dave’s Extraface Blog [or Twitter @extraface]
• Alain, who I have no idea how to contact